CO MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, 



nules : hind wing pale brown. Head and thorax dull greenish 

 brown. Abdomen brown. 



Expanse I g inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. F. INIoore. 



Genus Checupa, n, g., Moore. 



Palpi stout, short, erect, covered with short adpressed hairs ; third 

 joint minute, conical. Antennae minutely serrated. Proboscis short. 

 Legs robust, densely clothed Avith short hairs ; hind tibia with four 

 elongated appendages. Body very robust ; thorax thick, broad, 

 densely pilose beneath. Abdomen elongated, flat, extending one- 

 third beyond the hind wing, tufted ; fourth, fifth, and sixth seg- 

 ments produced laterally, the fifth being prolonged into a hollow 

 upright horn-like projection. Fore wing long ; costa nearly straight ; 

 exterior and posterior margins rounded ; no trace of angle. Hind 

 wings trigonate ; apex produced, rounded ; abdominal angle lobed. 



Checupa fortissima, n. sp. (PI. VI. fig. 5.) 



3Iale and female greenish black, brown beneath : fore wing with 

 the base, large orbicular and reuiform marks, a streak beneath, pos- 

 terior and exterior margins golden green, slightly marked with short 

 blackish transverse streaks ; a submarginal and marginal row of lon- 

 gitudinal black streaks divided by a line of white lunules : hind wing 

 cupreous brown. Head and thorax golden green. Abdomen brown, 

 tipped with greenish. Legs green ; tarsi brown. 



Expanse 2-j^ inches, 



Darjeeling. In Coll. \V. S. Atkmson ; F. Moore. 



Genus Sarbanissa, Walk. 



Sarbanissa insocia, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. Suppl. 

 iii. p. 746. 



Darjeeling {W. S. Atkinson's Coll.). 



Fam. Xylinid.e. 

 Genus Cucullia, Ochs. 



CUCULEIA TENUIS, U. Sp. 



Male blackish cupreous brown : fore wing elongated, very narrow, 

 wrinkled apically ; a small black spot near the base : hind wing pale 

 cupreous brown. Palpi black. Head and thorax blackish cupreous, 

 and abdomen pale cupreous brown. 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. W. S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. 



Fam. Heliothid-E. 

 Genus IIeliothis, Gueu. 

 Heliothis armigera, Hiibn. (Guen. Noct. ii. p. 181). 

 H. PELTiGERA, Tieit. (Guen. Noct. ii. p. 180). 



